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Oh, and I did feel they did justice to the sensory sensitivity thing, in the one episode where they even mention it. The way they switch back and forth between the noise being blaringly loud for Sheldon, and completely absent for the other family members, felt all too familiar. The degree of effort he puts into silencing it was pretty spot on, too.

Of course, if it were a real autistic person they were writing about, sensory sensitivity would have at least one mention in every single episode.

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The episode where he sends mail to NASA... I did that, too, with a design for a shuttle. What I did not do is follow up w/ a trip to the office and show off my ground breaking higher-level math; I was in 3rd grade and my "design" was an utterly useless 3rd grader's drawing. It didn't even have 3D perspective.

My favorite so far, though, is when the physics prof that Sheldon idolizes mentions to his SO while eating vanilla ice cream that some vanilla "extracts" are actually extracted from beaver anal glands. I laughed especially loud at this one because I have literally shared this same factoid with exactly the same bad timing. :D

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I'm watching Young Sheldon. It's very clear to me at this point that whoever invented the lead character had a lot of experience with someone twice-exceptional, but only a superficial understanding of why we are the way we are. The character is too rich to be made up out of thin air, but too shallow for the writers to have really understood it. It's also very much a highly exaggerated caricature. Still, even as I cringe at the kind of impression of 2e people that folks might be taking away from the show, I've gotten a few good laughs and I see a lot of myself in the show.

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@amici @inkican this is totally valid. Yes people need agency, and not nominal, patronized agency, and the abilities people have need to be recognized regardless of disability. I, and many, are #2E, twice exceptional. I have slow processing speed, and missed a lot of opportunity that was well within my capacity. But we should recognize such opportunity in service of our intrinsic value, not value a person based on their *different* ability.

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@pteryx While I love the settings, one of the things I appreciate most about #2e is that they laid out a bunch of optional rules, and why you might or might not want to use them. "Here's how to make a class or race... and here's some ways you might mess it up."

I don't always agree with their conclusions, but that they started me thinking about those angles has helped a lot over the years.

“A 2e child’s experience with writing challenges has been described as ‘thinking in paragraphs, speaking in sentences and writing in words; it just keeps diminishing.’

One can imagine the 2e child’s frustration of carrying deep and meaningful thoughts in her head but experiencing the inability to express them fully.” - Gifted and Distractible (Book)

Ok

Multiple exceptional kids

We need to identify them as early as possible

They require special programs, adjustments in schooling and parenting, they feel outsiders, they need to be in touch with other special kids

What would happen to them, should they NOT identified ?

That's what happened to me

I was "identified" at 50 both as adhd and gifted

I struggled with mental health all life long and i didn't know what I was struggling with

I felt unbearable pain, I suffered from derealization in my 20ies

I lost youth

Now I'm not sure I know who i am

The psychological profile from the scm 90 is bleak

Are there any considerations for lost adults ?

Books ? Videos ? Science ?

Am I on my own in this ?

#2e
#neurospicy
#actuallyadhd
#neurodiverse
#neurodivergent
#gifted
#giftedness

One of the .. "benefits??" I guess of a #2E #autism diagnosis is that now when I see people I have worked with in the past seemingly breeze by me in climbing the ladder, getting into cooler more senior roles, I now know why.

I throw "better" in quotes because in the past I might have looked on that as a challenge and been all like "fuck that!!" and doubled down my efforts.. and now my brain says stuff like "maybe this is as high as far as you get? maybe they are just better than you?".

but then I still have enough of what got me here to be back at "fuck that" and adapt and overcome. Maybe knowing what my struggles are makes it much simpler for me to understand the constraints in my system, isolate and exploit them (aka Theory of Constraints).

Fuckits refilled.

There is something great about having a system to rapidly prototype characters and classes. #SavageWorlds lets you make races pretty quickly; my #2e #ADnD rules for creating classes via character points let me build an ersatz Warlord (as #4e #DnD) in about an hour... and that's with a LOT of interrupts.

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easily talked to, however, as he sent his creation, the Cobblefright, to slow down the heroes while he made his escape!

Unfortunately, our heroes were far too powerful for the Cobblefright in the end and were able to overcome it thanks to the dice favoring the heroes in THAT game as opposed to my #2e campaign... whoops. ^^;

Odwald returned to admit his fault and surrendered to the dean and the heroes.

Odwald would be arranged to be brought in for questioning back in Alderheart, and our (...)